China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Even the most evil people can have good moments and we can appreciate those without changing outlet overall opinion.

I’m still waiting for Trump’s good moment

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Wait, there are regulations about advertising true speed? Does ComCast know?

[shasta@lemm.ee]

It may be only loosely enforced with fines but there are FTC rules that all online marketing must follow https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-marketing-internet-rules-road

It does and up helping a little bit. I'm addition to government fines, they also risk class action lawsuits from their customers. I'm willing to bet this is more of a hurdle than China has for state owned companies.

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Yep, and in ten years, we’ll still be arguing absolute it whether dsl counts as “broadband”

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

For me, the normal stuff. Mathematically my gig fiber is overkill for my usage. And internet services can rarely keep up with that - you want to download some update or new game? It’s throttled at the source regardless of your internet connection

But in reality when I visit people with “fast enough” internet, I always see glitches and buffering and lag. While it usually serves the need and sometimes gets advertised bandwidth, gig fiber always serves the need. I shouldn’t have to complain about my network or worry about how many streams or how big a download or how many people on their phones. I should never worry about lag during games or interrupted video calls. And I shouldn’t have to worry about sketchy broadband providers (like xFinity/ConCast) way over provisioning their lines or otherwise never delivering marketed bandwidth.

Gig fiber delivers. Always. Like any good infrastructure you don’t even have to think about it: it just always does the job

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Take a look at devContainers as an idea that might be generalized. It’s just docker containers so so big but not huge however the use case ….

devContainers are a complete portable development environment, with support from major IDEs. Let’s say I want to work on a Java service. I open my IDE, it pulls the latest Java devContainer with my environment and all my tools, fetches the latest from git, and I’m ready to go. The problem with this use case is I’m waiting this whole time. I don’t want to sit around for a minute or two every time I want to edit a program. The latest copy needs to be here, now, as I open my IDE

[frezik@midwest.social]

Maybe don't rely on cloud garbage for basic development?

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Technically I don’t. I’m also the guy running CI/CD building devContainers for my engineers. They no longer have to worry about updating certificates and versions or security patches, and IT doesn’t have to worry about a lot of crap on their laptops that IT doesn’t manage. Engineers can use a standard laptop install and just get the latest of everything they need, scanned, verified, as soon as it’s available. And since it’s all automated, I can support many variations

At work, I’m on the same network, but working from home, I still need the responsiveness to do my job

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

My point was - people may have consistency in words and actions, but not between words and actions.

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

China is a totalitarian regime with more human right, continuing atrocities, corruption, and illegal trade/business practices.

They are also

• bringing a billion people out of poverty and up to modern standards of living in record pace
• building out renewable energy faster than the rest of the world combined
• have like 95% of the worlds EV buses
• are adopting EVs at record pace
• built out the worlds largest high speed rail at record pace
• publish the most scientific paper of any country
• are a hotbed of innovation, manufacturing development
• are quickly building an outstanding space program from almost nothing